Awareness training on heart attack and timely treatment will help save lives – Minister of State Aditi Tatkare
Inauguration of National Sudden Heart Disease Awareness Week by Minister of State Ms Tatkare.
Health is being neglected due to the current stressful life. So sometimes even a heart attack doesn’t make sense. It is important to know exactly how to diagnose a heart attack, the type of heart attack and first aid. It is highly commendable that the training program was organized by the Directorate General of Information and Public Relations in collaboration with I Care for the officers and staff as well as all media personnel in the state, said Minister of State for Information and Public Relations Ms Aditi Tatkare.
The training session was inaugurated by Minister of State Ms Tatkare on the occasion of National Accidental Heart Disease Awareness Week jointly organized by I Care and Directorate General of Information and Public Relations. Secretary and Director General of Directorate General of Information and Public Relations Dr Dilip Pandharpatte, Director (Administration) Ganesh Ramdasi, Director (News) Dayanand Kamble, Dr Yash Lokhandwala (Cardiologist) of I Care, Dr Brian Pinto (Cardiologist), Dr Kinjal Goyal (Psychiatrist), officials and employees of the state under the Directorate General of Information and Public Relations had participated online.
Even young and middle-aged people are falling victim to this sudden heart disease. Knowing and training this type of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) when a heart attack and cardiac arrest is happening around you, you need to know first aid so that you can save that patient’s life in a matter of minutes. Awareness of heart attack and cardiac arrest will help save lives, said Minister of State Ms Tatkare.
Health Awareness Needed in Changing Lifestyle – Dr Dilip Pandharpatte
Increasing stress in a changing lifestyle is leading to many diseases. In this stressful lifestyle, it is necessary to get training on how to live a stress-free and healthy life by being health-conscious, said Dr Dilip Pandharpatte, Secretary and Director General, Directorate General of Information and Public Relations.
Dr Pandharpatte said that with the changing media and competition in the media, the lives of journalists have become stressful and hectic. The work of the Directorate General is said to be governmental but also journalistic. People in the media have to be constantly on the lookout. This increases stress and leads to many health problems. For this, it is necessary to be health-conscious. He hoped that the informative training Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) for the primary treatment of heart attack and cardiac arrest would be useful in saving the lives of his close friends and relatives.
If a heart attack or cardiac arrest occurs around you, how can death be prevented by providing four-stage emergency medical help in three minutes? In order to create awareness in this regard, the inaugural training program on the occasion of National Sudden Heart Disease Awareness Week was organized by I Care on Saturday along with the Directorate General of Information and Public Relations.
The training also required CPR (Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation) to be started as soon as possible to prevent medically brain death in the victims of a sudden heart attack. So as to help save the life of a close person or relative.
Dr Sumaiya Raghavan and Dr Anand Srivastava need to know how to differentiate between heart attack and cardiac arrest through television and start treatment of the patient within three minutes. It was trained in four phases through the presentation. After the training, Dr Yash Lokhandwala (Cardiologist), Dr Brian Pinto (Cardiologist), Dr Kinjal Goyal (Psychiatrist) of I Care gave guidance on the topic of Sudden Heart Disease and also answered the questions of the participants in the webinar.
Meanwhile, cricketers Sunil Gavaskar, actor Aamir Khan, Kartik Aryan and actress Bhagyashree Patwardhan were sensitized on the usefulness of CPR (Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation) training for early heart attack or cardiac arrest.
